Visual Language by Mollie Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg Documenting my creative journey en-us 2022-02-28 02:13:38 UTC 2023-12-05 18:52:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674936783 Colour and texture. Adding gloop to handbuilt vessels. Layered glazes and multiple firings. ]]> 2023-08-28 09:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674936783 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674938348 Central Otago Rocks. Lake Hawea. ]]> 2023-08-28 09:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674938348 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674939739 Rock from Kakanui. Quartz embedded throughout. So very unexpected and magical. ]]> 2023-08-28 09:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674939739 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674940902 The interior of my most recent gloop pot. Figuring out how to use gloop has been a huge learning curve. ]]> 2023-08-28 09:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2674940902 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2680226310 Trying to construct geometric forms with chicken wire and cheese cloth dipped in paper clay. 
Not going particularly well at all. Time for a rethink. ]]> 2023-08-31 19:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2680226310 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2686457639 The delicacy of this is stunning. I am trying to create more movement in my floral pieces. ]]> 2023-09-06 09:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2686457639 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2686459622 Big handbuilt pieces ready to fire. These will be used as the base/frame for more sculptural pieces ]]> 2023-09-06 10:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2686459622 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2686461099 Aggressive gloop peeling the clay from the vessel. This piece was glaze fired around five times ]]> 2023-09-06 10:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2686461099 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691221914 2023-09-08 19:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691221914 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691223473 More by Kodai Ujiie I think he may be rubbing ink into the glaze to give the coloured crackle. But not 100 percent sure. Have just spent two hours looking at inks online. Sumi ink appears to be the one but is very expensive. May test with a black to begin with. ]]> 2023-09-08 20:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691223473 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691225880 Rocks completed. All pieces are hollow. Carved out and then out back together. Then texture is added with various found tools. These have been a really unexpected and satisfying project which I am continuing with in my personal practice. All rocks are based on real rocks. ]]> 2023-09-08 20:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691225880 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691226407 More rocks]]> 2023-09-08 20:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691226407 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691227712 And even more rocks. Two fake rocks and one real.  I was really pleased how these turned out. ]]> 2023-09-08 20:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691227712 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691230156 Shannon Courtney makes rocks. Cardrona River rocks from 2021. She appears to mainly slip cast using the original rock as her mold base. She then cases from there and alters pieces. ]]> 2023-09-08 20:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691230156 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691822167 I am really loving these floral components by Vivian Pastor. Looking to experiment more with engobe and underglazes which I have not really done before. The vibrancy of these colours is amazing. ]]> 2023-09-09 20:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691822167 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691823059 More Vivian Pastor work. These are just so beautiful. Her artist statement really resonates with me. 
“My work revolves around nature, the story of life and death, alongside the delicate fragments of memory”]]> 2023-09-09 20:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2691823059 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2708399228 I can’t draw very well so the drawing part of the diploma has been challenging. Did this module I have posed some of my hares in the style of “The Three Graces” I then need to attempt to draw them. ]]> 2023-09-18 08:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2708399228 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2708402044 The hares I have chosen are ones that have flaws. Cracks, drips, pieces peeling off , the imperfect. But all of them have their own personalities. ]]> 2023-09-18 08:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2708402044 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2708408131 The last time I can recall painting was in the Warkworth playcentre. I believe I went there three times before I went to school. I must have painted at some point at school but I have no recollection of that. I can however still recall the joy of a four year old experiencing paint for the first time. 
Now I am just scared.. ]]> 2023-09-18 08:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2708408131 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716898058 Interpretation of my tableau of the Three Graces. I haven’t painted since kindy so was pleased with how they came out. ]]> 2023-09-22 21:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716898058 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716898560 Gas fired porcelain flower bowl. I am experimenting with different firings and glazes. ]]> 2023-09-22 21:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716898560 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716898898 The whole bowl. The glazes are the rare earth oxides. Fired to come 10]]> 2023-09-22 21:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716898898 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716901636 Pieces of the sculpture. I don’t know if they will survive being fired. ]]> 2023-09-22 21:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716901636 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716902409 Completed flower vase. Fired 4 times to get glazes right and to get the vase full as the flowers move in the firing. ]]> 2023-09-22 21:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2716902409 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741524020 Trialing how to put sculptural pieces together. ]]> 2023-10-11 09:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741524020 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741525544 Second piece. Now I am joining these together with paper clay. ]]> 2023-10-11 09:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741525544 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741528961 Splodging white glaze on to pieces. Hoping to stabilize these and to be able to fire them successfully. ]]> 2023-10-11 09:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741528961 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741534231 Discovered something exciting. We ran out of NZ China clay so substituted snowbrite China clay. The gloop had previously been quite fragmented crackle. With the substitute China clay it has become a very flowing gloop.  Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures but this is the next step. ]]> 2023-10-11 09:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741534231 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741538864 Had done some crackle test tiles that had come out ok but not fantastic. I decided to trial a bigger surface and got really good results. The glaze colours could do with some work but the crackle was great. I rubbed Indian ink onto the piece and was really please with how it turned out. ]]> 2023-10-11 09:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741538864 Solid top and bottom and glaze inbetween.. this is amazing Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741542261 2023-10-11 09:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2741542261 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742315251 Exploring imperfection in my work that relates to human conditions. Is this a fault or does it reflect real life? ]]> 2023-10-11 18:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742315251 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742318142 Closing up the soda kiln. This has become a big part of my pottery outside of school ]]> 2023-10-11 18:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742318142 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742319076 Firing day - flowers for the kiln gods ]]> 2023-10-11 18:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742319076 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742321079 Gloopy pieces submitted for an exhibition ]]> 2023-10-11 18:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742321079 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742325068 Experimenting with sculptural pieces at Aramoana ]]> 2023-10-11 18:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2742325068 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745731808 Things has changed a lot from when I closed the kiln. Work has slumped sideways. But I still see potential ]]> 2023-10-13 23:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745731808 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745732043 It looks like an industrial structure that has collapsed in on itself. ]]> 2023-10-13 23:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745732043 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745732268 Completed flower sculptures. Components assembled and final firing done]]> 2023-10-13 23:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745732268 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745733637 More placement of pieces at Aramoana. Seaweed dipped in paper clay, found driftwood and soda fired ceramic circle ]]> 2023-10-13 23:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745733637 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745733880 More at Aramoama. This kind of reminds me of tree of life symbolism ]]> 2023-10-13 23:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745733880 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745734099 Seaweed wrapped vessel. Soda fired and displayed at Aramoana ]]> 2023-10-13 23:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745734099 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745734447 Getting Flying Dutchman vibes from this piece. ]]> 2023-10-13 23:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745734447 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745734775 On the edge of a small rock pool]]> 2023-10-13 23:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745734775 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745735037 Copy of a rock found at Aramoana. Displayed at Aramoana ]]> 2023-10-13 23:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745735037 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745735714 Rocks displayed in the wild near Cromwell ]]> 2023-10-13 23:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745735714 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736080 Flower vase in my garden ]]> 2023-10-13 23:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736080 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736239 First glimpses of the latest soda firing ]]> 2023-10-13 23:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736239 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736451 We could have got a lot more in this firing if the stacks had been better planned ]]> 2023-10-13 23:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736451 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736594 Some of the work. Still a work in progress ]]> 2023-10-13 23:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745736594 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745737819 Apparently this is ceramic. Incredible! ]]> 2023-10-13 23:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745737819 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745738128 The delicacy of these is stunning ]]> 2023-10-13 23:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745738128 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745739463 This is just incredible and must have taken an enormous amount of time ]]> 2023-10-13 23:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745739463 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745739732 Moeraki boulders. Beautiful rocks. ]]> 2023-10-13 23:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745739732 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745739924 Moeraki and moss]]> 2023-10-13 23:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745739924 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745740167 School wall moss. ]]> 2023-10-13 23:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745740167 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745740469 2023-10-13 23:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745740469 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745740892 Lake Hawea rock ]]> 2023-10-13 23:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745740892 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745741524 Vivian Pastor I just love the colours in these. All underglaze. I need to try and go slower and see how mine would look without glaze ]]> 2023-10-13 23:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745741524 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745741729 Vivian Pastor ]]> 2023-10-13 23:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745741729 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745741955 Mel Ford ]]> 2023-10-13 23:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745741955 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745742699 Adding more gloop and firing for third time ]]> 2023-10-13 23:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745742699 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743024 My piece was a finalist in the Quarry art awards. Not a winner but still so pleased ]]> 2023-10-13 23:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743024 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743370 Soda fired celadon glaze on textured interior ]]> 2023-10-13 23:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743370 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743627 Gas fired porcelain with rare earth glazes ]]> 2023-10-13 23:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743627 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743919 Close up of some serious gloop ]]> 2023-10-13 23:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745743919 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745745135 Further flower sculptures ]]> 2023-10-13 23:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745745135 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745745623 And yet more 
I had made up a lot of pieces so was a solid few weeks of assembling, glazing adding more flowers etc and the glaze firing again  ]]> 2023-10-13 23:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745745623 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745745936 My garden. Planted about fifty assorted tulips it’s exciting watching them emerge. ]]> 2023-10-13 23:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2745745936 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2747107356 Working on displaying work in non studio environment ]]> 2023-10-15 22:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2747107356 Mollie_Schollum https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2747107650 Displaying in non studio environment ]]> 2023-10-15 22:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Mollie_Schollum/khybxa4v12cytgdg/wish/2747107650